Mbalula has always heavily denied that he has any links to the controversial Gupta family. Several people, including Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, suggested Mbalula was ‘hired’ as sports minister by the Gupta family.

In October, EWN reported that Sedgars Sport, who supplied uniforms for South Africa’s Olympic athletes and officials, had partially paid for a trip Mbalula took to Dubai between December 2016 and January 2017, while he was sports minister.

Sedgars denied this and Mbalula’s spokesperson said the minister paid for the trip himself.

He has been Tweeting since that Dubai geo-location Tweet, but hasn’t said anything about where he is spending his December holidays.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with a holiday to Dubai, but considering all the controversy…